How to hide files and folder in a window

How to Hide Files and Folders in Windows

The files and folder in your computer can be hiding in such that no other user of the computer can access. This enables the confidential document and some files that used for only user to protect other to see it.

Procedure of hiding the files and folder into the windows.

First of all you should have folder, create the folder and the save into the desired place you want such as any drive, My Documents  For example, create a new folder under C:\Program Files\Common Files.

By creating the folder it doesn’t allow any people go browsing through there anyway since it’s mostly just system installation files. In the windows  there is not an easy way to search the computer for just hidden files and folders, so that makes this method slightly more useful.

Then setting a folder to Hidden in Windows by changing one of the properties of the folder. Windows Explorer reads this property and appropriately shows or hides the folder. However, there is an option in Windows Explorer called “Show hidden files and folders” that will display all folders no matter what the hidden property value is set to.

Click My Computer from your desktop and from the menu click on Tools and then Folder Options. In Windows 7, you can click Organize and then Folder and Search Options.  

Alternatively, you can click on Start and type the word search and click on Change search options for files and folders.

Click on the View tab and under the Hidden Files and Folders section, choose the radio button that says Don’t show hidden files, folders or drives. Click OK to save the changes

If we need to check the box that says Hide extensions for known file types and Hide protected operating system files. Usually these options are already set by default, but it’s good to check anyway just to make sure. Ok now to hide the folder itself, go into the folder that has the folder you want to hide, right-click on it and choose Properties.

On the General tab, check the box in the Attributes section named Hidden

Click OK and your folder should no longer be visible in the current window you have open. It’s hidden and you won’t be able to see it unless you do the same procedure as mentioned above and change the option back to Show Hidden Files and Folders.
Now if you want to save anything into the hidden folder, you could UN-hide it and then save the file and then re-hide it, but that’s really not necessary.
In order to save a file to a hidden folder, all you need to do is specify the entire path in the File Name box. Fox example, if you’re saving a Word document, you could save the files to the hidden folder by typing in C:\Program Files\Secret\filename.doc and click Save.